Paranormal Ranger

<p><strong><em>*A </em>NEW YORK TIMES<em> PICK FOR TOP 22 NONFICTION BOOKS TO READ THIS FALL!*</em></strong></p><p><strong>A Navajo Ranger's chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and unexplained in Navajoland</strong></p><p>As a Native American with parents of both Navajo and Cherokee descent Stanley Milford Jr. grew up in a world where the supernatural was both expected and taboo where shapeshifters roamed witchcraft was a thing to be feared and children were taught not to whistle at night. </p><p>In his youth Milford never went looking for the paranormal but it always seemed to find him. When he joined the fabled Navajo Rangers--a law enforcement branch of the Navajo Nation who are equal parts police officers archeological conservationists and historians--the paranormal became part of his job. Alongside addressing the mundane duties of overseeing the massive 27000-square-mile reservation Milford was assigned to utterly bizarre and shockingly frequent cases involving mysterious livestock mutilations skinwalker and Bigfoot sightings UFOs and malicious hauntings.</p><p>In <em>The Paranormal Ranger</em> Milford recounts the stories of these cases from the clinical and deductive perspective of a law enforcement officer. Milford's Native American worldview and investigative training collide to provide an eerie account of what logic dictates should not be possible.</p>